The Management of Osun State University Teaching Hospital, UNIOSUNTH have reacted to the allegation that it sent some patients out of the hospital on Monday night.
The hospital management said it had to make the decision due to the ongoing Joint Health Sector Unions and Assembly of Health Care Professionals strike.
Osun Defender reports that a family of one of the patients in the hospital had raised the alarm in a WatsApp message on Tuesday morning that the hospital management around 8:00 p.m on Monday ordered their patients to leave the hospital immediately.
He wrote, “Gov ADELEKE must hear this. UNIOSUN TEACHING HOSPITAL workers embarked on strike since morning and they never informed the patients until 8 p.m tonight and ordered all patients to leave the hospital immediately I including pregnant woman who were about to deliver.
“Relatives and their patients are left stranded especially those from outside Osogbo. The government should come to people aids. You can fact check me. This action is not only barbaric but pure wickedness on the part of the striking workers.
“Why the midnight. It is unfair. A lot of patients don’t know where to go.”
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Responding in a WatsApp message sent to Osun Defender, the Public Relations Officer Of the hospital, Mr Wale Ajibolu, said the management met with the workers to persuade them to suspend the ongoing Johesu strike, adding that the engagement took till late evening.
He noted that the management of the hospital had not choice than to do the needful once it realised that the union won’t suspend the strike.
“The management met the union till late evening to suspend the ongoing Johesu strike.
“They let them see reasons that we are hospital and our own case is peculiar.
But they refused,and the management had to do the needful,” he wrote.
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